Publisher's Synopsis
In 1890, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones finished a monumental series of paintings inspired by Sleeping Beauty. Greeted with ecstasy by the public, it sold for a record 15,000 guineas and made the artist a rich and famous man. Told in the voices of eight extraordinary women - the wives and mistresses, sisters and daughters of the famous artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle - this novel tells the dramatic story of love, desire, obsession and tragedy that lies behind the creation of this famous depiction of Sleeping Beauty.
